Chapter 8
Continuation of Elijahs pov
When she stood up all I saw was the purple lace of her underwear. The tshirt she wore barely covered anything.
"I'm sorry but neither one of us will be able to concentrate on anything you say if you don't cover up." Niklaus said sighing. I cleared my throat, took my jacket off and handed it to her. She huffed and shrugged it on.
"Better?" She asked. We both nodded. She flashed her eyes and a book slammed on the table roughly. She crossed her arms and the book opened.
"Our elders use to tell us a story about a powerful witch whose blood cured the sick. So I went back and The Book of Damnation does say the blood of the most powerful witch can cure anything." She said biting her lip.
"So you cut your neck and made him drink?" I asked standing.
"No. I cut my wrist and made him drink. He lost control and bit my neck." She scoffed. I started pacing.
"So what now? Clearly he still wants your blood." Niklaus said huffing.
"He needs to detox from me. Which means I have to find a new place to stay until he can come down from this high. I could compel him but he will just fight it." She said shaking her head.
"Can Niklaus compel him?" I asked.
"No. He has my blood in him right now, it wont take." She said sighing.
"You will stay with us until he has detoxed. What about your pups?" He said. Jake walked in.
"We will stay and help him detox. I live with one vampire, I just got use to, I'm not doing it again." He said.
"Jake, I don't want you and Paul getting hurt." She said.
"We'll be fine. You go be safe." He told her. He kissed her head and walked out.
"I can't ask to stay with you." She told us.
"You're not asking, we're telling. You will be safe there like Jake said." I told her. She turned to me with her arms crossed.
"I don't do well with someone telling me where to stay." She said.
"Well this time you will get over it, love. Ill have Thierry pack your bags and this big scary looking book." Niklaus said walking out. Isabella went to take off the jacket but I held up my hand.
"Don't cause another distraction." I told her. She rolled her eyes and grabbed her book. We walked out and stood in the courtyard waiting on Thierry. A few minutes later Thierry walked down with two bags. I took them from him.
"Niklaus is waiting for us, Isabella." I said. She waved me off.
"Keep me updated and keep an eye on jake and Paul." She said biting her lip. He nodded and kissed her cheek.
"I will bells. Be safe with the Originals." He said glancing at me.
"I will. Bye Jake! Bye Paul!" She yelled up. I saw them wave but then I heard growling and someone being slammed down. I grabbed her hand and pulled her with me to the car. We got in and left.
"A powerful Salem witches blood can cure a werewolf bite now? Fantastic." Niklaus commented.
"Yeah. Its something alright." She scoffed. I glanced behind me at her. A ringing came from her phone. She climbed over the seat and growled as she tried to find it. She huffed and sat back down.
"Caleb. Hey." She said sighing.
"Hey baby girl. You havent called lately. I got worried." A male voice said.
"Yeah sorry. Ive been in New Orleans with Marcel and Thierry. We've been catching up lately. Especially me and Thierry. How's home?" She said biting her lip.
"Well Reid, Pogue, and Tyler are with their parents right now. Apparently buying a shop wasn't in the books for a family business." He said.
"They taught us to follow our dreams. If they want to do this then they need to let them." She said huffing.
"Well you know how the families work." He said laughing. We pulled up to the house.
"Yes they want all of us to be them! They want us to follow our dreams but it has to meet their expectations! We're suppose to be hot shot lawyers with two or three kids each, and a mansion in the hills! Well caleb we don't want that!" She said angrily.
"I know, you hate the idea." He said sighing.
"No. I don't hate, its freaking stupid!" She said. Niklaus grabbed her bags and carried them inside the house. I stayed out with her.
"Well we already have one rebel in the family, I guess they don't want four more." He said scoffing.
"Three. You and Pogue are the good ones between the five of us." She said leaning against the car.
"What happened to Tyler being a good one?" He asked.
"Please. Reid and I corrupted him long ago." She said shaking her head. He laughed.
"Hey baby girl. I knoe it s late where you are but I just wanted to see how you were doing." He said. She looked at me and bit her lip again.
"Fine as always. Making new friends while I'm here." She said.
"You don't sound fine." He said.
"I am. Its just been a long night is all." She said rubbing her neck.
"Ill let you get some sleep okay? Call me in the morning." He told her.
"I will. I love you." She told him.
"I love you too bay girl." He said hanging up. She sighed and put the phone in the jacket pocket. She closed her eyes and leaned her head against the car.
"Everything alright, Isabella?" I asked her. She looked up and sighed.
"Your heard the conversation. Just crazy family drama." She said pushing off the car.
"I can understand. Lets get you inside before you catch your death." I said motioning to the house.
"Elijah, again I cant die." She said laughing. We walked inside and walked into the living room. She slid off the jacket, sat down in the chair closest to the fire and used it as a blanket.
"Care for a drink?" I asked her.
"Yes please." She said. I poured us each a scotch and walked over to her.
"Who is Caleb again?" I asked handing her, her drink.
"Jealous?" She asked smirking. I sat down by her feet on the stool.
"Entertain me please." I said. She took a sip of her drink and nodded.
"Caleb, is my big brother. He is the noble one of the five of us." She told me.
"Ah yes. The warlock like me." I said nodding.
"Yup." She asnwered.
"You two seem close." I said. She nodded and looked at her hands.
"We are but sometimes we don't see what the other does. That's why we butt heads so much." She said laughing.
"So you're Niklaus in your family." I said smirking.
"Precisely. I guess that's why he and I get along so well." She said downing her drink.
"I'm sure Marcel explained my other siblings to you. Rebekah, Kol, Finn." I said.
"No. I'm waiting for you or Niklaus to tell me. Its your story to tell, not his." She said sitting the glass down.
"You know for someone with an attitude, you seem to be compassionate." I told her.
"I have my moments." She said flashing her eyes. The book appeared in her lap.
"Anything particular you looking for?" I asked her.
"No. Just making sure nothing goes wrong with Marcel." She said.
"Yes you are a female version of Niklaus. Ill leave you alone then." I said standing.
"Stay. The company is nice as long as you remain quiet." She said as I grabbed her glass. I laughed. I sat our glasses at the bar and grabbed a book off the shelf. I sat down across from her and began reading. After a few hours I heard someone shifting.
"No." I heard her say. I looked up and saw Isabella asleep. I closed my book and got up. I removed her book carefully, took my jacket off, and slid my arms under her. She curled into me as I lfited her up. I walked upstairs to the room next to mine and funnily Niklaus placed her bags in there. I placed her in bed and covered her.
"Elijah." She sighed. I leaned down and kissed her head. I walked to my room after and went to bed myself. For once in my lifetime I couldn't fall asleep. I got out of bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen. I stopped when I saw her standing there at the counter.
"Isabella." I said surprised.
"Hey. I didn't wake you did i?" She asked biting her lip. I walked to the fridge.
"No. I couldn't sleep. What are you doing up at this hour?" I said grabbing a blood bag.
"Nightmare." She answered. She was eating the chocolate boxed cake from the fridge.
'Want to talk about it?" I asked her. She shook her head no. I grabbed a cup, poured my bag in, and heated it up slightly.
"You don't feed from the vein do you?" She asked me.
"Not really. Does this bother you?" I said sipping the drink.
"No. You do what you do to survive." She said shaking her head. I nodded. I looked up at the clock on the wall.
"You have only been asleep an hour." I told her.
"Its really the most these days." She said looking at the cake. I came and stood beside her.
"Since you arrived?" I asked.
"No. Since I left home." She said.
"May I ask why?" I said taking her fork. I took a bite out of the cake.
"I usually have someone sleeping beside me. I used to get terrible visions, growing up, that would happen in my sleep, and I would stay up all night because I was to scared to go back to sleep. Then Pogue started sleeping over and he and I started sleeping in the same bed and I wouldn't have the visions anymore. Now his girlfriend, who's his little human, doesn't like it much." She told me.
"Why didn't he come with you?" I asked.
"He needs his girlfriend time." She asnwered. She took her fork back and took a bite.
"Did he offer to come along?" I asked.
"He did. But I don't want my guys hurt. He gave me a few of his shirts to help." She said licking her lips.
"Has it helped any?" I asked taking the fork back.
"I'm standing in the kitchen eating cake with you in the middle of the night. What do you think?" She said laughing.
"That you had a hunger for junk food." I said laughing along. She nodded and we finished off the cake. I cleaned up much to her dismay.
"What do you when you cant sleep?" I asked. She hopped up on the counter.
"I eat a lot, redecorate the house, go for a run, and tv just bores me." She said shrugging.
"Have you redecorated the compound?" I asked her.
"Twice. Marcel caught me the second time when I tried redecorating his room. So Thierry and I became bed buddies." She said. I pushed back the jealousy that rose.
"Oh." I said finishing my blood. I rinsed the cup and put it in the dishwasher.
"I saw that." She said. I turned back to her.
"Saw what isabella?" I asked her.
"The flash of green in your eyes when I mentioned Thierry and I sleeping in the same bed." She said sliding down. I went to her and incased her in my arms against the counter.
"What makes you think I'm jealous of you and that boy sharing a bed? Or any man you talk too?" I asked her.
"Hmm, well you got all tense, gave a short answer, the flash of green, and the slightly angry side right now. Now Elijah, I've made enough guys jealous, I know the signs." She said.
"Is that what you're trying to do? Make me jealous?" I asked her.
"No. You're doing that all yourself." She said patting my cheek. She ducked under my arm and headed to the doorway. She stopped and turned to me. I took in the purple underwear and tshirt she was wearing.
"Goodnight Elijah." She said winking at me. Then she was gone. I sighed and went upstairs to bed.